System and devices facilitating dynamic network link acceleration

• US 10,329,410 B2
• Filed: 07/23/2018
• Issued: 06/25/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sons of Innovation LLC
• Original Assignee: Circadence Corporation
• Inventors: Vange, Mark, Plumb, Mark, Kouts, Michael, Wilson, Glenn Sydney, Thornton, Paul Randy, McFate, Marlin Popeye, Shaughnessy, Robert John
• Primary Examiner(s): Skripnikov, Alex
• Application Number:
  US16/042,415
• Publication Number:
  US 20180355154A1
• Time in Patent Office: 337 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 1/0016 Compositions of the tread
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• CPC Class Codes: C08L 2205/03 containing three or more polymers in a blend
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• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0227 Filtering policies mail message filtering H04L51/212
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 : wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 : Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1008 : based on parameters of servers, e.g. available memory or workload monitoring of computer activity G06F11/30
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/101 : based on network conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1029 : using data related to the state of servers by a load balancer
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1031 : Controlling of the operation of servers by a load balancer, e.g. adding or removing servers that serve requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/141 : Setup of application sessions admission control or resource allocation in data switching networks H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/143 : Termination or inactivation of sessions, e.g. event-controlled end of session
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• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/04 : Protocols for data compression, e.g. ROHC
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 : Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/10 : Streamlined, light-weight or high-speed protocols, e.g. express transfer protocol [XTP] or byte stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 : in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

A peer to peer dynamic network acceleration method and apparatus provide enhanced communications directly between two or more enhanced devices, such as enhanced clients. The enhanced clients may comprise a front-end, a back-end, or both. In general, the front-end and back-end of the enhanced clients work in concert to translate data into an enhanced protocol for communication between the enhanced clients. The enhanced protocol may provide acceleration, security, error correction, and other benefits. Data from various applications may be seamlessly translated between a first protocol and the enhanced protocol, such that the applications need not be modified to use the enhanced protocol. The enhanced clients may automatically detect one another to establish an enhanced communications channel automatically.

Claims

1. A method for dynamically accelerating network links between a back-end server and a client computing device comprising the steps of:

receiving at said back-end server over a base communication link from said client computing device a request comprising data packets of first type generated by said client computing device;

transmitting from said back-end server to said client computing device machine readable code which is executable by a processor of said client computing device to implement a back-end mechanism at said client computing device, said back-end mechanism configured to decode data packets of a second type received from said back-end server into data packets of said first type;

establishing an enhanced communication link between said back-end server and said client computing device;

encoding at said back-end server, based upon routing rules, data packets of said first type into data packets of said second type;

transmitting from said back-end server to said client computing device said data packets of said second type over said enhanced communication link for decoding by said back-end mechanism of said client computing device into data packets of said first type to restore the data packets from the back-end server for use by the client computing device; and

receiving quality of service information about the enhanced communication link from the client computing device at the back-end server.

2. The method in accordance with claim 1 wherein said machine-readable code comprises one or more executable files.

3. The method in accordance with claim 1 wherein said routing rules are associated with individual files.

4. The method in accordance with claim 3 wherein said back-end server encodes data packets corresponding to files having routing rules defining transmission over said enhanced communication link into data packets of said second type and transmits data packets corresponding to files having routing rules which do not define transmission over said enhanced communication link in data packets of said first type over said base communication link.

5. The method in accordance with claim 1 wherein said data packets of said first type are TCP/IP packets and said data packets of said second type are not TCP/IP packets.

6. The method in accordance with claim 1 wherein said encoding comprises compressing said data packets of said first type to generate one or more data packets of said second type.

7. The method in accordance with claim 1 wherein said back-end server comprises a web server.

8. The method in accordance with claim 1 wherein said back-end server transmits data packets of said second type over said enhanced communication link at a rate dependent upon said quality of service information.

9. The method in accordance with claim 1 wherein said machine-readable code enables a back-end mechanism which implements blending and reassembly functionality.